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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address · 1863

Quotes

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

Helen Keller · The Open Door, 1957 · Primary source

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”

Benjamin Franklin · Letter to the Abbés Chalut and Arnoux, 1787 · Primary source

“To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“But life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.”

Ernest Hemingway · A Farewell to Arms, 1929 · Primary source

“I wish we had horses to ride,” Maria said. “In my happiness I would like to be on a good horse and ride fast with thee riding fast beside me and we would ride faster and faster, galloping, and never pass my happiness.”

Ernest Hemingway · For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940 · Primary source

“You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.”

Winston Churchill · The Second World War, 1948-1953 · Primary source

“And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round. Let us then declare that King Arthur and his noble knights, guarding the Sacred Flame of Christianity and the theme of a world order, sustained by valour, physical strength, and good horses and armour, slaughtered innumerable hosts of foul barbarians and set decent folk an example for all time.”

Winston Churchill · A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, 1956-1958 · Primary source

“If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Compensation, 1841 · Primary source

“We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom—symbolizing an end as well as a beginning—signifying renewal as well as change.”

John F. Kennedy · Inaugural Address of President John F. Kennedy, 1961 · Primary source

“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility—I welcome it.”

John F. Kennedy · Inaugural Address of President John F. Kennedy, 1961 · Primary source

“Our goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right—not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere, and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.”

John F. Kennedy · Address During The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 · Primary source

“What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children—not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women—not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.”

John F. Kennedy · Commencement address at American University, 1963 · Primary source

“And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.”

John F. Kennedy · Civil Rights Address, 1963 · Primary source

“Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.”

John F. Kennedy · Ich bin ein Berliner speech, 1963 · Primary source

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